Speeches

Trisan's speech!!!!!

✍  Have you ever wrote your own speech in year 4? Well,on Tuesday 30Th of July, Room thirty started writing their own speeches. Our topic for our speeches is change which is a really  big topic. First we started thinking of a topic to write about.So we went on the app Inspiration to remember our  ideas. We thought of  tonnes of ideas to write about. After that, we thought of ten possible things we can write a speech about. The next day some people decided what their speech would be about. The others still thought of what to write about. I'm writing about my the English language and Terence is writing a speech about himself.Soon we had to write three introductions. Then,on to writing to our speech.It was quite hard to think of how to start our speech but eventually with a little help we finished our introduction. Soon people started to write their own main part. Most people didn't plan main key points but I did. My main key points were how English was in the olden days and now and comparing/facts.We continued writing our speech and making sure it makes sense. Finally people started finishing their speeches and showing it to the teacher. Our next step was to glue them onto queue cards. After we everyone finished writing their speech, we started practising them. Then we put our name into a box and the teacher made a roster about when we were presenting our speech. We all started practising hard. We both presented our speech on Tuesday. The teacher then asked us which did you think was the best. Eventually the teacher asked us to perform them to Mr Williams and the teacher. And guess what?  Me and Hillary got chosen to represent the class! The next Tuesday we will be doing our speech!!!  We started to practise REALLY hard. It was finally Tuesday......    Luckily I was last at doing my speech and right before me was Stephenie. One was about Thailand and she said that the elephants there are bad but I disagree because they are very proud of their elephants and why I know?- Because in this book it said that people from Thailand actually like their elephants because they set up MASSAGES by the elephants stepping on you!! I was very nervous when I went to present my speech. My mum said that that was the best I could perform it. When they gave out the speech placings I came SECOND!!  Although they said my surname wrong! So I was really happy of what I came!!!! Here's my speech:

How many of you know what LOL stands for?  And how many of you know what shan’t means?

Well, one of the reasons you don’t know what shan’t means is because they used it a long time ago instead of shouldn’t. When English was just invented, there were not many words and the first word was the word ‘town’ which we still use quite often. Also, a long time ago they had no grammar so I would imagine that it would be VERY HARD to understand, because at the end of ‘sentences’ it will be hard to know where the end of the ‘sentence’ is. When the olden days were going on, there were no words such as the, me, you and many more.

One time when I was reading a fact book it said that the phobia of long words is ‘hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia’. I wondered how people could tell other people that they have a phobia of long words because if they say ‘that’ word they will fear it. In the first place why did people invent the phobia of long words a long word? Also in the book it said the longest one syllable word is screeched. 

Here’s a weird fact: The word ‘monosyllable’ means having one syllable when it has five syllables! Do you know how some prefixes like ‘un’ make the word mean the opposite? Well, the word loosen and unloosen mean the same thing!

 Now back to the olden days. Imagine learning English for the first time. It must be harder to find a person who speaks it than to learn it! Hey, since we are not in the olden let’s come back to the modern days! 

Now you probably know lots about English so some of you will know a couple of these facts. Guess what the longest word with reverse alphabetical order is? I’ll give you a few seconds to think. If you thought spoonfeed you are correct!

Do you know a one syllable word that can be turned into a three syllable word? The word is are! Why? Because if you add the letter ‘a’ it will turn in to ‘area’. The most recent letters that were invented are ‘j,v and w’. 

Do you know what a palindrome is? It is a sentence that reads the same backwards! Most of them have different spaces but I have one that doesn’t! Here it is: God saw I was dog.

Here is a FASCINATING fact: the longest word in the English language is pnuemoenoultramicroscopicsillicovolcanoconeyohsis. Wonder what it means? It means a lung disease and to make it shorter to say the shortened version is pneumonia. So remember, never catch pneumonia!  





Did you like it? That was my old speech but I changed it a little bit.Here's Terence's speech:  





         

Do you want to be a person who works in a computer factory?

Well, I’m going to be a person that works in a computer factory because I like to play computer

games and I like to watch YouTube Minecraft  with Chris-The-Mike, Sky-Does-Minecraft,Minecraft-Unerfrs and Zider-let-play.

Windows 8 is a new computer that the computer factory made and it has a hand control and mouse control like a normal computer. You can paint with a normal paintbrush on Windows 8. Windows 8 is the best computer I know.

On the computer you can share and talk to other people so we can communicate with other people in other places or in another country that is far, far away. Sometimes when you don’t communicate with other people you will get bored.

You can play games on a computer anytime you want. They created games because they want us to have fun and for entertainment. You can be creative on minecraft and it is my favourite game is well.

You can read on documents and email which is all on the internet or you can call it safari too, but it is only on an apple computer. On Microsoft internet is either called internet explorer or google chrome. Lots of programmes need the internet to work.